One of the most popular tourist attractions of Kolkata, the Indian Museum is located at 27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Park Street area. Founded in the year 1814, at the present building of the Asiatic Society, this museum is the oldest and the largest museum in India as well as the Asia-Pacific region of the world. It comprises six gallery sections namely Archaeology Section, Art Section, Anthropology Section, Geological Section, Zoological Section and Botany Section.

A temple that resides in the heart of every single Bengali and is highly revered for being the sanctum sanctorum of Goddess Kali along with the place-of-stay of one of the greatest mystics and yogis of all times, Ramkrishna Paramhansa and his consort and spiritual companion, Maa Sarada Devi. The Dakshineshwar Kali Temple with the untiring efforts of Rani Rashmoni was the result of a dream that the Rani had seen before undertaking a pilgrimage to Benaras (now Varanasi).